I don't know if I have the same issue or not, but after an update a couple days ago, I rebooted yesterday and lost my print services. I'm on Xubuntu 22.04.4 LTS. The Printers dialog shows nothing and just says "Printing service not available. Start the service on this computer or connect to another server." "ps ax | grep cups| shows no processes running. I tried "sudo service cups start" which gave this in the syslog:
Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox sudo[3658]: kfank : TTY=pts/2 ; PWD=/home/kfank ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/service cups start Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox sudo[3658]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=1000) Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Listening on CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Scheduler... Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.service: Failed with result 'protocol'. Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Failed to start CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox sudo[3658]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 6. Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.socket: Deactivated successfully. Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Closed CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Stopping CUPS Scheduler... Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Listening on CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Scheduler... Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.service: Failed with result 'protocol'. Jun 27 18:41:41 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Failed to start CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 7. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.socket: Deactivated successfully. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Closed CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Stopping CUPS Scheduler... Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Listening on CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Scheduler... Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.service: Failed with result 'protocol'. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Failed to start CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 8. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.socket: Deactivated successfully. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Closed CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Stopping CUPS Scheduler... Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Listening on CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Scheduler... Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.service: Failed with result 'protocol'. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Failed to start CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 9. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.socket: Deactivated successfully. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Closed CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Stopping CUPS Scheduler... Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Listening on CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Scheduler... Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.service: Failed with result 'protocol'. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Failed to start CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 10. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.socket: Deactivated successfully. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Closed CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Stopping CUPS Scheduler... Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.socket: Start request repeated too quickly. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.socket: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Failed to listen on CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Dependency failed for CUPS Scheduler. Jun 27 18:41:42 kfank-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cups.service: Job cups.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. The updates log shows this as the culprit: Start-Date: 2024-06-26 10:05:09 Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade Upgrade: cups-common:amd64 (2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.8, 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.9), cups-ppdc:amd64 (2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.8, 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.9) End-Date: 2024-06-26 10:05:10 Start-Date: 2024-06-26 10:05:11 Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade Upgrade: libcups2:amd64 (2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.8, 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.9), cups-bsd:amd64 (2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.8, 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.9), cups-client:amd64 (2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.8, 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.9), cups-daemon:amd64 (2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.8, 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.9), cups-ipp-utils:amd64 (2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.8, 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.9), libcupsimage2:amd64 (2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.8, 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.9), cups-core-drivers:amd64 (2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.8, 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.9), cups:amd64 (2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.8, 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.9), cups-server-common:amd64 (2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.8, 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.9) End-Date: 2024-06-26 10:05:14 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2070315 Title: error in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf from today's patch To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/2070315/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
